Safety-pocket.



No. 813,362. PATENTED FEB" 20, 1906.

M. c. DEXTER.

SAFETY POCKET.

APPLIOATION FILED mn.s1,19o5,

Mil EN T01? onrrnn STATES PATENT orrion.

MARSHALL C. DEXTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HIMAN C.- DEXTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFETY-POCKET.

Patented Feb. 20, 1906.

Application filed March 31, 1905. Serial No. 263,179.

T0 01/ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARsI-IALL C. DEXTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety- Pockets, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to the pockets of vests and other garments; and the object thereof is to provide an ordinary garmentpocket of this class with a supplemental safety-pocket, which is adapted to be folded therein and to normally rest therein and which is designed for carrying money or other small articles of value and which may be drawn out of the pocket in order to secure ac cess thereto.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accomp anying drawings form a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a side view of a vest provided with my improved safety-pocket; Fig. 2, a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, the lining of the vest being omitted.

In the drawings forming part of this specification I have shown at a an ordinary vest, or one side thereof. This vest is provided with an ordinary pocket I), which opens at b in the usual manner, and in the practice of my invention 1 provide a supplemental pocket 0, one side of which is longer than the other, as shown at 0 and the longer side of the supplemental pocket 0 is stitched to the front b of the pocket I) at or near the top thereof and to the inner side thereof, as shown at 12 When the supplemental pocket 0 is in position in the pocket I) in the form of construc tion shown, the supplemental pocket 0 opens upwardly under the extended portion 0 of the longer side of said supplemental pocket, as shown at 0 and in order to obtain access to the supplemental pocket the hand is inserted into the pocket I) and the supplemental pocket is drawn out of the pocket I) and turned downwardly, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, and money or any small article of value may be inserted into the supplemental pocket, after which it is folded back into the pocket 6, as shown in full lines in Fig. 2.

The supplemental pocket does not prevent the insertion of the hand into the pocket I), and other things maybe carried in said pocket 6, if desired but it is evident that if the hand of a person not acquainted with the construction of the pocket or with the supplemental pocket 0, located therein, be inserted into the pocket I) the contents of the supplemental pocket cannot be reached, and if an attempt be made by such party to turn the supplemental pocket 0 or pull it out of the pocket I) the effort to do so will be known to the party wearing the vest.

Instead of stitching the supplemental pocket or the part c to the front side of the pocket I) it may be stitched to the back side thereof, as will be understood, and the operation in this event will be the same as with the operation shown in Fig. 2 and hereinbefore described.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A vest or other garment provided with a pocket, and a supplemental pocket secured therein, one side of the supplemental pocket at the opening thereinto being longer than the other, said longer side of the supplemental pocket being secured to one side of the main pocket at the opening thereinto and forming a fold at the top of the supplemental pocket beneath which said supplemental pocket opens, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 15th day of March, 1905.

MARSHALL C. DEXTER.

Witnesses:

F. A. STEWART, O. E. lVlULREANY. 

